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You’ve read the debates about using taxes on oil or carbon to combat climate change. Perhaps you’ve read about proposals to send rockets into the upper atmosphere to disperse particulates that can shield Earth from some portion of the sun’s rays. But I’m guessing you haven’t heard anyone propose that humans should be bio-engineered to become smaller, so we will consume less of the planet’s resources.

That’s one of the ideas floated by S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, and Rebecca Roache in an article forthcoming in Ethics, Policy and the Environment. Two other unconventional ideas, from the paper:

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Gary Rosen is the editor of Review and the former managing editor of Commentary magazine. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He is the author of "American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding" and the editor of "The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq."